In Defence of Arguments from Desire Re-Defending Arguments from Desire: A Second Response to Gregory Bassham Peter S. Williams (September 2016) In C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015), Gregory Bassham and I debated the argument from desire (AFD). As with all of the debates in this volume (which Dr Bassham… Read more »
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Cardiff University “Does God Exist?” opening speech
download PDF Cardiff University Debate on ‘The Existence of God’ (February 2013) Opening Speech by Peter S. Williams My opening speech will offer a cumulative case of four arguments for theism. 1) A Moral Argument Coming to know that the earth goes around the sun was a matter of… Read more »
Five Arguments for Theism
download PDF Five Arguments for God – by Peter S. Williams 1) A Kalam Cosmological Argument At a recent conference honouring physicist Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday, atheist cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin affirmed that ‘All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.’[1] A New Scientist editorial on the conference… Read more »
Terror from the skies and the Existence of God
download PDF Terror From the Skies and the Existence of God (2001) by Peter S. Williams On Tuesday 11th September 2001, terrorists flew two hijacked jumbo jets into the World Trade Centre (and one into the Pentagon) causing death and destruction on an incomprehensible scale, on live TV. To consider the philosophical… Read more »
Contra Grayling – A critique of “Against All Gods”
download PDF Contra Grayling A Christian Response to Against All Gods (Oberon Books, 2007) By Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, begins his self-described polemic against religion with a question and an answer: ‘Does Religion deserve respect? I argue that it… Read more »
Cambridge Union debate – “God is not a delusion”
download PDF Cambridge Union – ‘This house believes that God is not a Delusion’– Opening Speech by Peter S. Williams According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV 2000, p. 765) a delusion is: ‘A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what… Read more »
Dawkins’ God Delusion Reviewed
download PDF Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, (Bantam 2006) Reviewed by Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) Richard Dawkins has been described as ‘materialistic, reductionist and overtly anti-religious.’[1] Nevertheless, The God Delusion – which is descended by design from the two-part television series The Root of all Evil?[2] – is his first book… Read more »
Intelligent Designs on Science
download PDF Intelligent Designs on Science: A Surreply to Denis Alexander’s Critique of Intelligent Design Theory Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) I am gratified that my paper ‘Theistic Evolution & Intelligent Design in Dialogue’[1] has initiated a real life dialogue between these two fallible human attempts to understand origins. In ‘Designs on Science,’[2] Cambridge… Read more »
A Universe from Someone: A critique of Lawrence Krauss
‘A Universe From Someone: Against Lawrence M. Krauss’ A Universe From Nothing‘ https://www.bethinking.org/is-there-a-creator/a-universe-from-someone-against-lawrence-krauss A Universe From Someone: Against Lawrence M. Krauss’ A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012) – Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil); Philosopher in Residence at the Damaris Trust; Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews… Read more »
Evidence Relating to Prayer for Healing
download PDF Evidence Relating to Answered Prayer for Healing By Peter S. Williams Perhaps the most widely claimed contemporary public experience of the supernatural would be the claim to have witnessed miracles of healing in answer to prayer. According to a 1996 Time magazine poll 82% of adult Americans believe in the healing… Read more »